Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round — Emma Lathen

Michigan Motors' top executives were expected to live for their jobs -- but one was murdered for his! John Putnam Thatcher was in Detroit to investigate the firm's investment potential. Instead, he was quickly embroiled in the shooting death of an MM big wheel, Ray Jensen. Was the murder a crime of private passion, as the police thought - or a clever killing fueled by greed and ambition? Thatcher was soon tinkering under a corporate hood full of antitrust suits, sleek front-office wives - and Jensen's overjoyed widow...